2015-03-11

2015-03-11

Date

Mar 11, 2015

3PM EST

Call:  888-354-0094; Access code:  731627

Attendees

  • @Schaefer, Sibyl (Unlicensed)

  • @Laura Hild (Unlicensed)

  • @Ed Busch

  • @Cory Nimer

  • @Esmé Cowles (Unlicensed)

  • @Gordon Daines (Unlicensed)

  • @Rachel Maderik (Unlicensed)

  • @Chris Fitzpatrick (Unlicensed)

  • @Mark Cooper

  • @Scott Hanrath (Unlicensed)

  • @Noah Huffman (Deactivated)

  • @Kari S. (Unlicensed)

  • @Chris Ervin (Unlicensed)

Absent

  • Chris Prom

  • Terry Reese

  • Don Mennerich

  • @Nathan Stevens (Unlicensed)

  • Michael Vandermillen

  • Brian Hoffman

Goals

  • Update everyone on latest TAC work. 

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

 

Project Update:

Board meeting

Code4lib house

Confluence - open to public

other?

Chris F.

  • Brad needed for full update; Chris Irvin reported a little.

    • Atlanta in February, face-to-face at Lyrasis office

    • One focus on communication with the membership

    • Brad working on SAA ArchivesSpace session, half-day post-conference reception/presentation

  • Sibyl asked regarding status of community voting – Gordon reports that Brad worked with Atlassian to increase 50 concurrent user limit to 5000; happened last Thursday.

  • Confluence site to be made public, with a provision for private working documents.

 

Documentation Subgroup update

Kari

  • Continuing through the email lists.

  • Kari and Scott, who're also on UAC's Features Prioritization group, had discussed where documentation updates and testing should be integrated into the sprint process.

  • Question regarding where documentation is: currently on the GitHub wiki, to be moved to Confluence, including READMEs.

    • Tangent regarding documentation versioning referred to a smaller group discussion that Kari will organize.

 

Migration Subgroup Update

Michael Noah

  • Most work on testing import/export, particularly EAD.

  • Mark considering Schematron

  • Round of testing identified issues, some now in JIRA, some were already.

    • Problems importing large finding aids; performance improvements to be ported.

  • Longer term: testing EAC, EAD3.

  • Sibyl requested that Noah add details (particularly those in an email from Brad?) about migration principles to the documentation.

  • Cory and Brad are corresponding about EAC.

 

Committers Oversight Subgroup Update

  • Public mailing list

  • GitHub organizations

  • Plugin management

Esme

  • Mostly about mailing list closure and how better to communicate with community.

  • Considering more than one GitHub organization, e.g. for plugins and/or a labs/experimental organization like Fedora and Hydra.

  • Talking about plugin management: how to test, version, resolve conflicts, &c.

  • See also Minutes 2015-02-27.

 

TAC membership

Sibyl

  • Rotating off:

    • Laura's last call, changing organization.

    • Don rotating off in June.

    • Sibyl rotating off in June, changing organization.

  • If anyone has an interest in being chair, contact Sibyl.

  • New nominations in April?

Action items

@Chris Fitzpatrick (Unlicensed): to think regarding testing/review of documentation
@Kari S. (Unlicensed): to organize smaller inter-council group discussion on documentation
@Noah Huffman (Deactivated): add migration principles to documentation